Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994: a Stochastic Dominance Approach

David Madden () and F. Smith

Working Papers from College Dublin, Department of Political Economy-

Abstract: Results from poverty studies are sensitive to the choice f the poverty line. Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty lines or which at least give an unambiguous results over a wide range of poverty lines.

Keywords: POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; IRELAND; STOCHASTIC MODELS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2000
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